Resume/CV

Biography:

Dr. Al Saeed graduated from Colorado Technical University with a Doctor of Computer Science in Emerging Media. He has advanced degrees and substantial experience and leadership in different fields within computer science, emerging media, information technology, and e-business, as well as long professional and teaching experience. His background includes a great level of professional activities in the field of Computer Science.

Teaching Philosophy

Educating university students cannot be achieved by using only the traditional ways of teaching, using text books, lectures, and rote learning as the bases for class projects. Educators must effectively enhance and improve the learning process.My goal as an educator is to help my students succeed in their studies and to prepare them for their future careers by presenting them with realistic problems and effective and cost-efficient solutions to overcome these problems. In this way, students will become critical thinkers and problem solvers.

My objectives include but are not limited to the following:

Objective 1: Students will understand how the course content relates to the challenges they will encounter in their careers.Objective 2: Students will know where they can find useful and valuable information, how to evaluate this information, and make correct decisions based on their knowledge and understanding.Objective 3: Students will actively participate in the learning process.

First of all, to be a good mentor, an educator should get to know his/her students and treat each one of them as an individual. I would begin by learning my students’ names and obtaining pertinent information in order to personalize my relationship with them. It is important for an educator to have an understanding of the level of the students’ skills, their reasons for taking the class, their expectations about the class, their needs, and their career goals. To achieve my goal of assisting students in learning the content of a course, I would thoroughly prepare myself for each class period.I would make sure to have excellent knowledge of the material, organize lesson content in a logical and consistent manner, and include information regarding how the material relates to society, organizations, and the students themselves.

In order to achieve the first objective, I would bring up current-event issues ask students to share their knowledge of the particular subject(s), and then discuss how their knowledge has been useful in relation to their own experience. I would want my students to have a great deal of input in regard to the course content, and one of the best ways to accomplish this is by allowing them to work on independent research projects. This would also allow students to choose subject matter in which they are most interested.

In order to achieve the second objective, I would encourage students to use the university digital library and increase their library use skills. Also, I would develop annotated bibliography exercises to give students the opportunity to investigate topics in which they are interested, teach them how to locate and read primary journal articles, and challenge them to evaluate the information they find.

To ensure quality teaching, I shall remain open to change, re-examining the course content and implementing modifications as required to meet the objectives. The great reward of teaching will be the continual development of my teaching skills to improve the quality of education for others.

I enjoy interacting with faculty and students, and I am motivated and inspired by the innovation and creativity that goes on in higher education. My hope is to leave students with a positive impression of education, and the desire to continue learning, like myself. My goal is to foster a highly supportive and inclusive.

I look forward to being a member of a faculty that encourages innovative teaching.